![]() Predominantly in this new opera, Adams explores new musical territory such that Doctor Atomic does not sound anything like his operas Nixon in China or The Death of Klinghoffer. Renaud Machart, Les succès jalousés d'un musicien savant ( Le Monde, October 3) Renaud Machart, L'essai non transformé de "Doctor Atomic" ( Le Monde, October 3) Lisa Hirsch, Fallout (Iron Tongue of Midnight, October 3)Ĭedric Westphal, SFist Goes to the Opera: Dr. Lisa Hirsch, Going Nuclear: Doctor Atomic Arrives (Iron Tongue of Midnight, October 2) Justin Davidson, History's unholy Trinity ( New York Newsday, October 3) Tim Page, 'Doctor Atomic': Unleashing Powerful Forces ( Washington Post, October 3) Opera confronts our age's most terrifying topic ( San Francisco Chronicle, October 3) Joshua Kosman, Using a trinity of unconventional drama, haunting score and poetry, S.F. Mark Swed, An explosive premiere ( Los Angeles Times, October 3) The vibrations of the musique concrète permeated the San Francisco Opera house, providing a visceral component of this opera experience.Īnthony Tommasini, Countdown to the Eve of Destruction ( New York Times, October 3) Bookending Adams's original compositions are selections of musique concrète, which Adams offers as a compilation of sounds from the modern world, that include running motors, pop music of the 1940s, and people communicating, including crying babies and Japanese speakers. The music of Adams’s third opera is complex and dark without being strident. government documents, letters, and poetry of John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, Muriel Rukeyser, the Bhagavad-Gita, and American Tewa Indians. Peter Sellars created the libretto from U.S. Most of the story takes place on July 15, 1945, the day the first atomic bomb was exploded in New Mexico at a test site Oppenheimer named Trinity. The story of Doctor Atomic concerns the two weeks leading up to the first test of the atomic bomb, a top-secret United States government project known as the Manhattan Project and led by the physicist Robert Oppenheimer and General Leslie Groves. San Francisco Opera General Director Pamela Rosenberg commissioned and then premiered this seminal work on October 1, 2005. Her articles, including one this month called The State of New Opera, appear regularly in Scene4.ĭoctor Atomic, with music by John Adams and libretto by Peter Sellars, is awesome, as in inspiring substantial respect for its power, as in creating breath-stopping fear and dread. Karren's first opera, Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On, a collaboration with jazz composer William Banfield, was premiered in New York this past June. Alenier, is a poet and librettist, and she had the good fortune to be there for the big night on Saturday. ![]() Reilly's review of Maskarade in London, we present this review of the biggest opera premiere of the season, John Adams's Doctor Atomic at San Francisco Opera. Sometimes, we get reports from our friends. We at Ionarts would like to travel more to hear music around the world, but we cannot always go ourselves.
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